Clothes-pin



(No'Model.)

N. BAUGHMAN.

CLOTHES PIN.

No, 496,768. n Patented May. 2, 1893.

WIZWESSES fJvmwI-oz. f/flf fw UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

NATHAN BAUGHMAN, OF HAMMERSLEY FORK, ASSIGNOR OF ON-HALF TO RICHARD E. SANDBACH, OF WELLSBOROUGI-I, PENNSYLVANIA.

CLOTH ESPIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 496,768, dated May 2, 1893.

Application filed September 22, 1891. Serial No. 406,434. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, NATHAN BAUGHMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hammersley Fork, in the county of Clinton and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and usefulImprovementsinClothes-Pins, of which the following is a specilication.

Thisinvention relates to certain new and useful improvements in wire clothes-pins; and it consists of asin gle piece of painted, or non-corrosive spring-wire, bent into such form as to permit of its being readily strung upon a stretched clothes line, and be moved along, or securely adjusted at any part thereof.

The device is adapted for securingasingle piece of clothing, or it may be employed for clamping the adjacent ends of two pieces of goods, without overlapping.

The device may be employed for fastening either the finest or coarsest of goods, without in any manner injuring or discoloring the texture of the material.

In theaccompanying drawings-Figure l is a perspective view of my improved device, in an inverted position, and Figure 2 a section of a clothes-line with a number of clothes pins strung thereon.

In the construction of my device a piece of non-corrosive spring-wire, of requisite length, is bent, or coiled near its center to form an eye, or ring a and oppositely projecting branches b c, each branch provided with a hooked end as shown at d e.

To place my device in operative position on a clothes line, take hold of its longest branch; 3 5

face the line, and let the coiled portion of the pin rest thereon; pull downward untltheline rear of the line and next in front thereof and continuing the movement until the short branch of the device becomes free and the device fairly on the line.

The clothing is securely clamped to the line, after being properly hung thereon, by bringing the device in such position that its hooked ends will spring downwardly over both the goods and line as represented in Fig. 2, 0f the drawings.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As a new article of manufacture, a wireclothes-pin provided with a coiled inner portion, and oppositely projecting branches having hooked ends, substantially as and for the purpose specied.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

NATHAN BAUGHMAN.

Witnesses:

F. T. BorsEoRD, F. GOODMAN. 

